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with long projecting bristles ; ventral segments 3 to 5 ciliated 

 with white hair. 



? . — Similar to the male, but the thorax is without red and 

 the abdomen is either all black or with obscure reddish bands 

 across the middle of the third and following segments ; the 

 head also is quite different, being red, strongly suffused with 

 black above, without light markings, and normal in form, 

 without facial excavations ; the scape also is ordinary. The 

 tongue is broad and obtuse, P rosopis-Yike ; that of the single 

 male has not been extracted, but it is doubtless pointed. The 

 hind spurs are simple, black tipped with white; the mandibles 

 are obtusely bidentate. 



Hah. Mackay, Queensland (Turner). "British Museum. 



Both sexes from flowers of Eucalyptus, March 1900 

 (no. 454:) ; ? at flowers of Rosa, April 1899 ; one ? , May 

 1900. 



Meroylossa sculptissimx, sp. n. 



$ . — Length about 9 mm. 



Similar to M. eucalypti, with the same modification of the 

 face, but differing thus: — clypeal prominence broader than 

 long (longer than broad in eucalypti) ; scape more swollen 

 and with a blackish mark ; lateral face-marks pointed above ; 

 malar space black, but a yellowish-white stripe on lower part 

 of cheeks ; light markings of tlrorax chrome-yellow, the 

 scutellum all yellow, and the postscutellum yellow except at 

 sides (suture between them black) ; thorax and abdomen 

 black without red; venation paler; legs black; apical 

 bristles of abdomen shorter and finer. 



? . — Like the same sex of M. eucalypti, but the thoracic 

 markings differing in colour and form as in the male ; first 

 r. n. entering second s.m. (as it does also in the female of 

 eucalypti) ; head black, with the region about the mouth dark 

 reddish ; narrow lateral face-marks, creamy white, extending 

 from about level of antenna} to that of lower end of eye ; 

 apical part of clypeus depressed ; tongue Prosop/s-Mke. 



Hab. Mackay, Queensland (Turner, 1019). Male at flowers 

 of Eucalyptus, 1900; females at flowers of Cassia (Dec. 

 1899) and Rosa (June 1900). British Museum. 



]\[eroglossa lacti/era, sp. n. 



£ . — Length about 11 mm. 



(Shining black, with creamy white markings on head, thorax, 

 and legs ; closely similar to M. penetrata percrassa, but 

 differing thus : — less robust, the abdomen especially narrower; 



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